Local History & Genealogy

The library's local history and genealogy collection is housed in the McLaughlin Room, located just off the children's department. Most of the collection must be used in-house, with selected books available for check out. The room provides table space for materials, a microfilm reader/printer for the microfilm collection, and a computer with Internet access to Ancestry.com as well as other genealogy sites.

Included in the library's collection:

DAR Patriot Index
History of Henry & Fulton Counties, 1888
History of Williams County, 1882
History of Fulton County, 1920
Fulton County, Ohio: 1850-1976, A Collection of Historical & Family Sketches
Fulton County Marriages, 1864-1925; June 10, 1927-July 21, 1944
Tombstone Inscriptions for Fulton County
Civil War Soldiers Discharge Abstracts, Fulton County
Our Town: History of Pettisville, Ohio
A Pictorial History of Swanton, Ohio

Additional Fulton County historical and genealogical information can be found at Fulton County GenWeb. Click here to see a listing of books and documents available at the Fulton County Historical Society in Wauseon.

Family Histories & Genealogies

Peter Aeschliman II (1789-1855) and Descendants	Mona Aeschliman Mann
The Gottlieb Beck Family	Carol Nafziger
Bucher Genealogy
John N. & Anna Buehrer Ancestors & Descendants - 1600-1981	Margaret Bock Phillips
Buehrer Genealogy Addendum (1981-1989)	Margaret Bock Phillips
The Ancestry & History of the Buhrer Families An online version of this title is available at www.archive.org/details/ancestryhistoryo00buhr	James D. Buhrer
Diary of Susan Burkholder	Susan Burkholder
The Dominique Family of Fulton County, Ohio, 1849-1990	Jana Sloan Broglin
One Man's Family - A History & Genealogy of the Fetzer Family	John Fetzer
The Fredrick Folks (Elias & Mary) Ancestors, Descendants & "Kissin' Kin"	Isabelle Pursel
The Jacob C. & Mary (Burkholder) Frey Family - Ancestors & Descendants, 1997	Marcile Rupp Nofziger
The History of the Grime & Roth Family	Nona & Gene Grime
The Hartpence Family in America - Descendants of Johannes Eberhart Pence & Han Kitchen of Hunterdon County, New Jersey, 1735-1985	Esther Leonard Heer
Ancestry of Minnie Mae Leu Heer, Fulton County,	Esther Leonard Heer
Ancestry of Nelson Vere Heer, Fulton County, Ohio	Esther Leonard Heer
The Huber-Hoover Family History Index	Jerri Lynn Burkett
Heartland Memories	Marion J. Johnson
Memories of Jessie Belle Hopper Lantz, April 28, 1868 - November 16, 1959: History of the Hopper Family
An American History of the 1837 Leininger Family	Georgene (Leininger) Gallagher
The Leininger Family - One of the Oldest in the State & Nation	Mrs. Charles Bailer
The Miley Family History (1495-1964)	Paul Newcomber Miley, David Ray Miley, Ray Leonard Miley
Ol' Dan's Diary	Daniel & Joel Rashley
Feisz Families (Rice) in Europe & America - 1572-1995	Betty (Rice) Henry
August Ruihley: A Private History	Glen Richard Ruihley
Descendants of Johannes Rupp	Allen E. Rupp
My Memories	Hulda E. Schlapfer
My Searles Family Line of Massachusetts; Tompkins County, New York; Cayuga County, New York; Huron County, Ohio; Fulton County, Ohio; Eaton County, Michigan	Albert Good
The Sells - Gessells & McQuaide Families	David Stivison
A Short Story of the Joseph B. Short Family	Isabelle Pursel
The Peter D. Short Family	Frederick (Fritz) Stamm
The Spiess Family Story - Switzerland to the Midwest USA	Arlene Post Norton
Stauffer - Sauder Genealogy	Marjorie Ladd Holbrook
The Stotzer - Gould Family History	Jonathan Gould Stotzer
Winzeler Family Lines in USA	Howard W. Winzeler
School Yearbooks
Archbold: 1912, 1928, 1936, 1939, 1946-1965, 1970-1971, 1973-1986, 1988-1989, 1991--
Ridgeville Corners: 1946, 1948-1960
Wauseon: 1923-1927, 1929-1931
Bound editions of the Archette, the newspaper of Archbold High School - 1941-1946, 1949-1958
Microfilm
Archbold Herald - 1/4/1893-6/9/1898
Archbold Advocate - 1/18/1900-12/5/1907
Archbold Buckeye - 1905-present